Wednesday, May 22, 2013 at 12:43PM Jake Quist CEO & Co-Founder of Zillabyte-TWiST #E353
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Filmed at WeWork in San Francisco @jason talks with @jacobquist of @zillabyte, winner of best enterprise 2.0 at the #LAUNCH2013 Festival.
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Zillabyte pitching on stage at Launch 2013!
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1:15 Hey everybody! Great guest today, Jake Quist of Zillabyte!
2:00 Thank you to GoToMeeting!
4:29 Contest, if you could do a meeting with anybody who would it be? Chance to win a free HD webcame, ends June 6th at midnight
6:01 Back to the program!
6:15 Jake Quist, winner of the LAUNCH Festival!
8:55 What does Zillabyte do?
9:20 How do you get data about potential customers?
10:21 So you’re scraping the web and trying to find patterns?
10:33 You are doing this with existing clients?
10:44 What was the original idea you started the company with?
12:30 Who have you had use this service so far?
13:00 What is your service worth to clients?
13:50 Any other clients your are working with?
14:14 Did the self service option work?
14:35 Better design equals more people using the self serve platform?
14:55 How did you find out about the LAUNCH Festival?
15:10 How did you make the decision to apply and what got you selected?
16:00 Thank you to My Turnstone! More than furniture, we’re an experience!
20:07 What was the response from the judges when you pitched on stage?
20:41 How many people have offered to fund you?
21:10 So persistency got you funded after being rejected once before by the same VC?
22:03 How quickly did you get funded after the event? How much to you attribute to the event?
23:11 What else did you learn at the event? What were the rehearsals like?
25:15 Any other advice for entrepreneurs presenting on stage?
26:06 A year from now after you spend a bunch of money, what two things will be true/make you successful?
29:20 How do you plan on charging for the product?
30:10 Where is the company based? Who is your partner?
30:28 How big is the company right now?
30:45 What kind of employees that you need to hire?
31:21 How do you compare YCombinator vs. LAUNCH Festival?
32:11 How would you compare the demo day with these two events?
32:52 Do you think we should ad market size to the pitches at LAUNCH?
33:11 How do you capitalize on the momentum right after you come off stage?
33:45 What was your swag that you gave out?
33:51 Did you meet anybody interesting at this team?
34:01 What do you think about dinner after?
34:30 Did you meet anybody at the Angel night?
34:55 When will you be able to use this product?
35:22 When will you be self serve and use the product?
37:12 What about tracking the management team page?
39:12 How do you feel about the customization option for clients?
Part 2 Ask Jason’s
Questions:
42:09 How do you prove to investors the market size you’re going after? VC reluctant in the opportunity
47:25 Are paying customers really sexy for Silicon Valley?
49:17 So from the VC perspective you’re more more interested in someone who has a large base only a percentage of them paying the a small base with everyone paying?
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